Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 762

Polypodium rhaeticum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1091. 1753.

"Habitat in Gallia, Helvetia." RCN: 7899.

Type not designated.

Original material: Magnol?, Herb. Linn. No. 1251.46 ( LINN) ; [icon] in Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. Pl. Univ. 3(2): 740. 1651.

Current name: Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth ( Dryopteridaceae ).

Note: See discussion by Fuchs (in Candollea 29: 183. 1974) who did not designate a type, but illustrated 1251.46 (LINN) as his plate Ia.